Editing Jack Buck (section)

===Football===
Jack Buck was also a renowned [[American football|football]] broadcaster. In [[1964 NFL season|1964]], he began calling [[National Football League]] games for [[NFL on CBS|CBS]] television, following a four-year stint doing telecasts of the rival [[American Football League]] for [[American Football League on ABC|ABC]], which included the 1962 AFL Championship game between the Houston Oilers and the Dallas Texans&mdash;at that point the longest game ever played. Buck called [[Chicago Bears]] games in his first two CBS seasons, then switched to [[Dallas Cowboys]] games, including the famous "[[Ice Bowl (NFL)|Ice Bowl]]" championship game in [[1967 Dallas Cowboys season|1967]]. After the network moved away from dedicated team announcers, Buck continued to call regional NFL action through [[1974 NFL season|1974]], as well as several [[NFC Championship Game]]s and [[Super Bowl IV]]. He also called the [[1965 Cotton Bowl Classic]] for CBS television and several later Cotton Bowl games for CBS Radio.

In [[1975 NFL season|1975]], Buck temporarily left his [[1975 St. Louis Cardinals season|Cardinals]] baseball duties in order to host the [[NFL on NBC|NBC]] pregame show, ''[[The NFL on NBC Pregame Show#GrandStand (1975–1976)|GrandStand]]'', alongside [[Bryant Gumbel]]. In the [[1976 NFL season|1976]] and [[1977 NFL season|1977]] seasons, he called regional NFL play-by-play for NBC. On August 16, 1976, Buck called the first-ever NFL game played outside of the United States, a preseason exhibition between the [[1976 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season|St. Louis Cardinals]] and [[1976 San Diego Chargers season|San Diego Chargers]] held at [[Korakuen Stadium]] in Tokyo, Japan. (Buck also worked NBC's backup ''[[Major League Baseball Game of the Week|Game of the Week]]'' during the [[1976 Major League Baseball season|1976]] baseball season before returning to the Cardinals full-time in [[1977 St. Louis Cardinals season|1977]].)

Buck served as the [[NFL on Westwood One Sports|CBS Radio]] voice of ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' (teaming with [[Hank Stram]]) for nearly two decades ([[1978 NFL season|1978]]–[[1984 NFL season|1984]] and again from [[1987 NFL season|1987]]–[[1995 NFL season|1995]] after CBS regained the radio rights from [[NFL on NBC Radio|NBC]]). Ironically, in 1970 ABC's [[Roone Arledge]] had asked via telephone about Buck's interests in becoming the first television play-by-play announcer for ''Monday Night Football'', but because of personal animosity surrounding his previous stint with the network, Buck would not return their phone call. (The television play-by-play role would go to [[Keith Jackson]] instead, and later to Buck's CBS colleague, [[Frank Gifford]].)

In addition to ''MNF'', Buck called numerous playoff games for CBS Radio, including 17 [[Super Bowl]]s (the most of any announcer). Buck also served as a local radio broadcaster for the football Cardinals in [[1980 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season|1980]] and [[1981 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season|1981]], and returned to calling Sunday NFL games for CBS television from [[1982 NFL season|1982]] to [[1987 NFL season|1987]].

Late in the [[1990 NFL season]], Buck's onetime CBS broadcasting partner, [[Pat Summerall]], was hospitalized with a [[bleeding ulcer]] after vomiting on a plane during a flight after a game, and was out for a considerable amount of time. While [[Verne Lundquist]] replaced Summerall on games with lead analyst [[John Madden]], Buck (who was at the time the network's lead [[Major League Baseball on CBS#1990–1993 version|Major League Baseball]] announcer) filled in for Lundquist, teaming with [[Dan Fouts]] to call two games (both of which coincidentally featured the Cardinals, who had moved from St. Louis to [[1990 Phoenix Cardinals season|Arizona]] by that time).